IDE

To develop a Joomla extension we recommend that you use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). An IDE has many benefits:

• Code completion
  • Getting suggestions for code completion which saves researching existing code and helps avoid errors
  • Auto-implementing namespace usage
  • Type hinting when using well documented classes, methods and functions
  • Building auto comments for classes/methods/functions
• Symbolic debugger
• Code analyser
  • Automate code style feedback
  • Hints for "smelling code" to improve the code quality
• Project/Folder management for extension projects
• Many addons/support for daily coding

The two current leading IDEs are Visual Studio Code and phpStorm

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